Women's Health in Canada: Challenges of Intersectionality, Second Edition

by Marina Morrow (Editor), Olena Hankivsky (Editor), Colleen Varcoe (Editor)

Overview

Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens.

Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442628472
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Marina Morrow is a professor and chair of the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Olena Hankivksy is a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
Colleen Varcoe is a professor emeritus in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Part One: Conceptual Foundations

Introduction to Women’s Health
Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe

1. Women’s Health in the 21st Century
Olena Hankivsky

2. Overhauling Life Course Approaches to Women’s Health: Towards an Intersectional Approach
Olena Hankivsky and Nicole Etherington

Part Two: Historical Foundations

3. Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Women’s Health Movement in Canada
Marina Morrow and Christabelle Sethna

4. Synergies of Oppression: Barriers Faced by Older Immigrant Women in Accessing Services for Elder Abuse
Sepali Guruge and Astuko Matsuoka

5. All My Relations – Indigenous Women’s Health in Canada
Billie Allan and Janet Smylie

6. Reproductive Politics: Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice
Holly Mckenzie

Part Three: Methodological Foundations: Operationalizing Social Justice and Social Change

7. Decolonizing Research
Colleen Varcoe and Holly Mckenzie

8. From Gender Mainstreaming Toward Mainstreaming Intersectionality
Olena Hankivsky and Gemma Hunting

9. Engaging Communities: Intersectional Feminist Participatory Action Research
Marina Morrow, Colleen Reid, Ania Landy, Sabina Chatterjee, Wendy Frisby, Cindy Holmes, and Audrey Yap

Part Four: Exemplifying Change (Health Policy and Practice)

10. Social Determinants of Injection Drug Use Among a Community Sample of Sex Workers: Intersections of Structure and Agency Across the Life Course
Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Rachel Phillips, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, and Kate Vallance

11. Toward a Broader Conceputalization of Trans Women’s Sexual Health
Greta Bauer and Rebecca Hammond

12. "Women and Madness" Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional and Mad Studies Frameworks
Marina Morrow

13. The Intersecting Social and Structural Contexts of Navigating HIV Risk and Access to Care among Women
Andrea Krüsi and Kate Shannon

14. Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Wellbeing and Women’s Marginalisation in Community Contexts
Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, and Mei Lan Fang

15. Violence Against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice
Kate Rossiter

16. Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality
Christine Kelly

17. Understanding Migrant Women’s Health: Looking Through Intersectional, Gendered and Human Rights Lens
Bilkis Vissandjée and Ilene Hyman

18. An Intersectional Analysis of the Ontario Dementia Strategy
Ngozi Iroanyah

19. Prioritizing Non-Communicable Diseases at the Intersections: Global Action in the Canadian Context
Olena Hankivsky, Claire Sommerville, and Mary Mandhar

20. Beyond Sex and Gender Difference in Funding and Reporting of Health Research
Olena Hankivsky, Kristen W. Springer, and Gemma Hunting

Contributors

What People are Saying About This

Elizabeth McGibbon

"This book offers cutting-edge analyses of women's health. Its critical social science framing will make it a go-to book for innovations in teaching and for research about persistent historical contexts that continue to block justice for women. The editors are intersectionality scholars and the book chapters reflect the broad reach of the contributors' academic, activism, and policy knowledge across central, and at times silenced, issues in women's health. The chapters present a clearly cohesive set of interconnected ideas, which is often difficult to achieve in an edited volume."

Victoria Smye

"Women's Health in Canada takes a bold step into the twenty-first-century realities of women's lives by foregrounding the complex array of women's multiple intersecting identities, including and beyond gender, as shaped by social, economic, historical, political, and ideological processes influencing health and wellness and health inequity. Specific attention is paid to anti-racist, anti-oppression, decolonizing strategies for addressing inequity across multiple domains of practice — clinical, education, research, and policy — with relevance to nursing, social work, medicine, and beyond."

Editorial Reviews

" Women’s Health in Canada takes a bold step into the twenty-first-century realities of women’s lives by foregrounding the complex array of women’s multiple intersecting identities, including and beyond gender, as shaped by social, economic, historical, political, and ideological processes influencing health and wellness and health inequity. Specific attention is paid to anti-racist, anti-oppression, decolonizing strategies for addressing inequity across multiple domains of practice – clinical, education, research, and policy – with relevance to nursing, social work, medicine, and beyond."

—Victoria Smye, Associate Professor and Director of the Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, Western University

"This book offers cutting-edge analyses of women’s health. Its critical social science framing will make it a go-to book for innovations in teaching and for research about persistent historical contexts that continue to block justice for women. The editors are intersectionality scholars and the book chapters reflect the broad reach of the contributors’ academic, activism, and policy knowledge across central, and at times silenced, issues in women’s health. The chapters present a clearly cohesive set of interconnected ideas, which is often difficult to achieve in an edited volume."

—Elizabeth McGibbon, Professor in the Rankin School of Nursing, St. Francis Xavier University

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